ron paul, republican of texas, will be speaking at the gop convention. we will ask you to phone in your questions. new york city, a democratic line. caller: [unintelligible] my issue with this whole campaign, the republicans always tried to justify attacking democrats. they do not really have any proof. republicans want to place the race game at the end of the day. obama did everything he said he was going to do. he never get any credit for that. guest: that is a point held by many. if you look at the tone of the ads being run in the campaign, i would say the obama campaign has been the more aggressive in terms of taking it in a personal way to mitt romney. that is not to say that mitt romney's allies will not respond in kind. barack obama has not pulled punches here. he has gone directly at mitt romney often in a personal way. that approach has won him lot of support on the strategists side. for a well democrat had won moral victories and lost actual victories. -- for a while, and democrats had won moral victories and lost actual victories. no one is go